Strip shingle



May 11 1926. 1,584,343 H.ABRAHAM.

STRIP SHINGLE Filed March 22, 1922 glvwcnfoz z /erberZ' Abra /m mPatented May 11, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT ABRAHAM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE BUBEROID COMPANY, JA. CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY. I

STRIP SHINGLE.

- Application tiled March 22, 1922. Serial No. 545,144.

This invention relates to a strip-shingle made of prepared roofing, ofthe character having recesses in its lower edge which reccsses extendinwardly only apart of the distance that the strip is intended to beexposed when laid, and more particularly to an improvement in strips ofthe kind described in my Reissue Patent No. 15,280 of Feb. 7, 1922.

In that patentis shown and claimed a strip having spaced tabs on itsupper edge, and having its lower edge divided at regular intervals intoshingle-like portions by recesses leading into slots, the recesses andslots combined extending inwardly the distance that the strip isintended to be exposed when laid. The exposed portions of such strips,when laid in overlapping courses, simulate the appearance of separatedindividual shingles.

The present invention has for one of its objects the provision of astrip in which the shingle-like portions are partly defined by therecesses in the lower edge and partly delineated by markings on the bodyof the strip adjacent the recesses. This eliminates the necessity ofcutting slots, with the consequent waste of material and other objec-.tions hereinafter pointed out, while retain- 'ing the advantages, bothinappearance and structure, due to the formation of recesses in thelower edge.

In the. accompanying drawings illustrating the invention,

Figure 1 is a plan View of one form of strip in which the tabs andrecesses are truncated,

Figure 2 is'a plan view of a portion of a roofing formed of the stripshown in Fig. 1, and,

Figure 3 is a plan view of a modified strip in which the tabs andrecesses are pointed.

The strip 1 is made of prepared roofing consisting of felt or fibrousmaterial, impregnated and coated with bituminous compositions, andpreferably surfaced with particles of slate or other facing substance.Becesses 2 and tabs 3 are disposed at regular intervals along the lowerand up er edges respectively, the recesses and ta s being mutuallysubstantially similar in size and shape, and being preferably, thoughnot necessarily, arranged in staggered order. The extreme depth of therecesses, measured transversely of the strip from an imaginary linecoincident with its lower edge, is less than the distance that the stripis intended to be exposed when laid, being, preferably,

approximately one-half of that distance, as

seen in Figure 2.

Markings 4 extend transversely of the strip from the points of therecesses, which points may be eitherblunt or sharp, for the remainder ofthe distance that the strip is. intended to be exposed when laid. Forexample, if the strip is designedto be laid of the strip, is such as togive the exposed portion of the strip when laid the a pearance ofseparated individual shing es, as seen in the lower course of Figure 2.The markin s 4 at either end of the strip are prefera ly, each, one-halfthe width of the others so that when the strips are laid end to end in arow, the markings intervening all of the shingle-like portions of thecourse will be unifor The markings 4 are preferably black or colored tocontrast with that of the strip itself, and may be formed either byremoving the slate granules or facing to expose the black bituminouscoating, or by applying paint, melted bituminous substance, or othersuitable coating material over the mineral facing. In practice, theinner ends of the markings of a lower courseserve as gauges for layingan immediate upper course with the proper extent of the lower courseexposed.

, From the foregoing description it will be seen. that my inventionprovides a strip having shingle-like portions which are defined partlyby the edges of the recesses 2 and partly by markings 4 on the body ofthe -strip itself. This eliminates certain disadvantages of the type ofstrip wherein the shingle-like portions are formed by cutting awaymaterial to the entire depth of such portions. In a roof formed ofstrips of the latter type there is a posfibility that a strong windmight blow or bend back the shinglelike portions to the full extent oftheir exposure. With my improved strips, in which part of theshingle-like portions are formed on an intact body portion of thestripitself, that danger is avoided. According to this invention it ispossible to form a i I practicable roof covering with strips of narrowerover-all widths than has proven oomfmercially satisfactory with stripsofthe former type. a ile I have described and, illustrated my inventionherein with particular reference to a preferred form of strip havingspaced tabs .on its upper edge it is to be understood that. I do notlimit myself in that respect.

What I claim is: As a new article of manufacture, a shingle strip of alength equal to the combined widths of a plurality of interspacedindividual shingles, said strip being-composed of a fibrous baseimpregnated and coated w th bituminous compositions and faced withmineral particles, and having straight being broken at regular intervalsby mutually similar shaped 'i'eceses whose sides converge inwardly fromsaid edge toa depth equal to substantiall one-half the de th that thestrip is iiiten ed to be exposed w en laid, the upper longitudinal edgehaving a plurality of evenly spaced tabs similar in shape to therecesses, the body of the strip being marked at intervals correspondingto the width of an individual shingle with narrow bandsofdark color,said bands extending upward from the inner ends of the recesses adistance not greater than the de th of said recesses, whereby, when aplura ity of such strips are laid in overlapped relation the efi'ect ofthe combined recesses and narrow dark bands simulates the appear ance ofinterspaced individual shingles.

HERBERT ABRAHAM.

